1991 Spanish Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 14 of 16 in the 1991 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 29 September 1991 | ||
| Official name | XXXIII Gran Premio Tío Pepe de España | ||
| Location | Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.747 km (2.950 mi) | ||
| Distance | 65 laps, 308.555 km (191.727 mi) | ||
| Weather | Warm and overcast, drying, | ||
| Attendance | 60,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:18.751 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Riccardo Patrese
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Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:22.837 on lap 63 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Williams-Renault | ||
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The 1991 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the XXXIII Gran Premio Tío Pepe de España) was a Formula One motor race held on 29 September 1991 at the Circuit de Catalunya. It was the fourteenth round of the 1991 Formula One season. The 65-lap race was won by Williams driver Nigel Mansell after he started from second position. Alain Prost finished second for the Ferrari team with Mansell's teammate Riccardo Patrese third.
There was a lot of action in the backrooms in the week separating the Portuguese and Spanish Grands Prix with the big news being that Max Mosley was elected president of the FISA, replacing Jean-Marie Balestre. There were also changes in the driver line-ups as Michael Bartels returned to Lotus replacing Johnny Herbert who had obligations in the Japanese Formula 3000. Jordan had replaced Roberto Moreno with young Italian rookie Alessandro Zanardi, and Fondmetal had sacked Olivier Grouillard and replaced him with Gabriele Tarquini of AGS, Grouillard promptly taking Tarquini's old seat. The cash-strapped Coloni team was in dire straits with their driver Pedro Chaves having decided to jump off the ship before it sunk and, as no-one else wanted to attempt to pre-qualify the car (something that Chaves had been unable to do all season), the team were forced to stay in the garage. Championship challenger Nigel Mansell was limping all weekend, the Williams driver having injured his ankle in a football match. Qualifying saw Gerhard Berger do a favor to teammate Ayrton Senna by taking pole position from Mansell, Senna, Riccardo Patrese, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Ivan Capelli, Emanuele Pirro and Nelson Piquet.
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